Massie v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently February 2012
19 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Lowe v. Blum · 29 Wash. 2d 468 - State v. Mitchell · Campbell v. State · Gibson v. State
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“2. When perpetrated by an act imminently dangerous to others and evincing a depraved mind, regardless of human life, although without any premeditated design to effect the death of any particular individual; ...”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“engaged in the commission of any felony other than”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Barnett v. State · Quillen v. State“premeditated intent and design to effect the death”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Wright
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.